can’t describe my request any better than this. sorrry if it’s too vague. books that dismantle your liberal understanding of the world. can be a historical work of fiction, doesn’t really matter. just something that’ll leave a mark on you ig
can’t describe my request any better than this. sorrry if it’s too vague. books that dismantle your liberal understanding of the world. can be a historical work of fiction, doesn’t really matter. just something that’ll leave a mark on you ig
Oh, and for nonfiction I’d highly recommend some David Graeber, he’s really great at soft-selling socialism. He tends to start from a neutral positionand assume the reader doesn’t have our sensibilities, and holds them by the hand through a series of individually mild and well-cited statements and leaves them in an unambiguously radical place.
Bullshit Jobs is an easy read and much better than it sounds. Debt: The First 5000 Years is his masterpiece, but is a much more challenging read.
I came here to recommend Bullshit Jobs, Debt by contrast I found too sweeping / less convincing (and in any case a much bigger ask for the reader)
I felt like I already knew pretty much everything Bullshit Jobs was going to say before it said it. Debt had some new ideas for me. I think your background matters a lot.
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The essay is worthy on its own but the collected anecdotes and insights in the book are definitely worthwhile, especially for newcomers/non-leftists who may not have any opinions about say the history of economics but do almost certainly have some experience of a stupid or useless job. There’s a tangible, easy to grasp contradiction in the alleged efficiency of our economic system vs the increased proliferation of these jobs that helps to keep the book persuasive from the jump. I think it’s also helped by positing itself as “a theory” rather than a definitive history, something I had trouble swallowing w/r/t Debt.
Debt I think is good if you’ve already bought into being anticapitalist. That said, it did hit me harder having dropped acid and getting through the middle portion of the book